On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:28:07PM +0300, Oleg Broytmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:14:41PM -0600, Adam Olsen wrote: > > Yet the ext4 > > developers didn't see it that way, so it was sacrificed to new > > performance improvements (delayed allocation). > > Ext4 is not the only FS with delayed allocation. New XFS has it, btrfs > will have it. Don't know about other OS/FS (ZFS? NTFS?)
http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2009/03/12/delayed-allocation-and-the-zero-length-file-problem/ Ted Tso said HFS+ and ZFS have the property as well. So no, it is not a deficiency in the Linux kernel or in Ext4 FS - it is a mainstream path in modern filesystem design. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ p...@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
